I Voted Saxon!

Watching the terribleness which is eurovision. The terribleness of Europa on our televisions. A big eared Swiss version of Charlie pace is on the television now singing about gold (i think).

@Chleee is right, though. I love Zamiro but the humor isn’t there without Wogan. Even Norton would be much better. Can’t you switch to the UK stream again please???

I think it’s frightening when you start to get used to these domestic airports – both Sydney and Melbourne are not 100% but I’m fully comfortable knowing which way to turn when I get off the plane and not looking confused anymore. I hate to see those poor people who are here once a week, or daily!

It’s funny, after flying on one of the larger air carriers, I feel more comfortable flying with the rex people. There’s something more personal? And a small complimentary drink/nibbles is just nice. Spose you get what you pay for.

I love this mophie juice pack. Slowly starting to run out now and I’m still sitting on 100% internal. Love it.

How is everyone? Just spending a lazy day at my friends house in Sydney. Looking at the television and watching that Jessica prance herself (good on her, even if she didn’t break the record) on tv I think I did the right thing NOT going into the city today

My ipad would have done nice right about now. Apple says still 28th may, do no more delays hopefully.. It’s funny though with voda 3g and shitloads of apps, I’m finding I’m not missing out on a lot than I would if I brought my shitty and slow eeepc. Probably going to visit the apple store on Monday, see if I can find one of those battery cases for my 3gs.

Anyways must dash. Nice dinner out tonight for my friends birthday… Hope all is good with all of you.

Terry

there’s too much messing around with privacy settings etc for me to put my personal stuff on here. not often, but every now and again I may lock a post. If you’re interesting in reading them (if you know me, or are just curious), feel free to add me on livejournal. it’s been a long while since i properly used it, but my username is http://hacked2death.livejournal.com/

everything else, whether it be music, my rantings or sci fi geeky stuff will still go through here and filtered onto the LJ account anyways.

hope everyone is well

Terry

This is how I’m feeling 90% of the time. It’s kind of odd. I usually enjoy summer. Well, more than winter, that’s for sure. This year though it just feels like it’s drailing the life out of me. Also, while the rest of the country is either getting some decent storms, ortoo much rain, Mildura is being passed by. The last time it rained was about 3 days ago or so. And it was in the middle of the night and lasted minutes. Literally minutes. So perhaps its envy? I don’t know. Either way, I’m not trusting the weather man and keeping the watering out the front up.

Had the family here most of the the weekends lately. Had Auntie here, weekend before, Mum and Dad, weekend before that, other auntie. It’s like this is becoming the new Broken Hill (my home town) or something. Also, remind me not to drink Carlton Draught again. Woke up in the middle of the night with a serious headache, I’m talking migraine almost. Something obviously didn’t agree with me with that beer. It’s kind of odd, I used to drink that all of the time when I lived in Wagga Wagga, with no ill effects. (this is before Pure Blonde). Maybe drinking all this Low Carb, low preservatives Beer has agreed with my body. Who knows. Went to my fathers friends house after heading out to the drags where I fall asleep and start snoring in front of them all. Classy. I think i’ll give the Carlton a miss next time. And the bad thing is, I MAYBE had 4?? God I’m useless

Last week I dropped my iphone and cracked the front of the screen. What annoys me the most is, that it happened at home, while sitting on my lounge where it fell out of my hand onto one of the plates I was previously using for Pizza. I think that’s the most annoying bit out of it all. If it were out on the street, or rushing somewhere, I’d totally understand. If the plate wasn’t there, it would of just bounced and been fine. I’m sure the Apple guy was smirking today when I told him.

That’s the big surprise, I can’t believe how easy and simple it was to call them, them to get my details and sort everything. Within ten minutes he had given me a number, a sheet to print out and BOOM! Off to the Post Office, where THEY get one of their own packing boxes and sort it out for you. God knows how much that must cost Apple altogether each year. Sure, I have to pay to get the screen replaced, but it was my own fault…. Probably Internode and Apple are  the only tech support numbers I’ve ever called and not come away with a migraine afterwards.

Being sucked into Dragon Age : Origins at the moment. If you like single player RPGs, this is probably THE best game I have ever played. So much gameplay, such clever and well thought out character design where influences and disapprovals by your companions completely changes the storyline. And its got many difficulty settings so a uber-noob like me can actually play and not get frustrated and stuck somewhere. I’ve only done two areas and I have so so much still to go on. Haven’t even started the Downloadable Content yet….

Terry O’Fee, 2000

I remember where I was that night quite well.

For the first (and probably last) time in Broken Hill’s history (my home town), we had a street party. The clock hands on the Post Office Clock were painted a god awful yellow where people would complain about not being able to see the time for a year to come. The streets were blocked off from cars and pubs usually ignored in the main street were their busiest they will ever be in their lifetimes. People went from pub to pub, even drinking on rooftops wherever they could find room. I stayed relatively sober, it was such a big night for the city I wasn’t in one spot long enough to get a decent nights drinking in. My friend at the time and I bumped into so many people, just chatting, barely trying to move. Me and that friend hardly talk anymore. He became the guy I looked up to, to nasty jerk in a couple of years. Most you Australians out there in the country probably have heard him and not realised it.

It was my last year at TAFE. Getting older, my first job had started to die, and just after the boss who hated me with a passion finally fucked off to Adelaide and the new nice boss couldn’t afford to give me many hours at all. Still she was surprised the following year when I told her that I was leaving and had a full time job with my father. Go figure.

The next ten years were interesting ones. 2001 was, really, the end of my teenage years. Spending 9/11 watching that tragedy all fucked on painkillers after getting my wisdom’s out. Working with dad wasn’t really working out that well. I was moved down here to Mildura, then to Melbourne. Never really found my groove in Melbourne where they offered me a job in their regional office in Wagga. Finally made some good friends. Eventually moved to Mildura again for the past couple of years. A lot of the early times are documented in the locked friends posts of my Livejournal. You know I kinda wish I kept updating that a lot more. This is long before I really discovered social media, twitter, facebook, all that. (and I never liked myspace. thank god my predictions on that piece of crap came true).

The last year I feel was real big for me. I moved into a house that was finally my own. I met some good friends and have settled into some kind of groove. I met a girl, didn’t really work out, however. Eh, shit happens. I did lose some close family, sadly a lot of Broken Hill trips the last couple of years were funerals. Never a good thing.

There’s one true thing I’d like in my life at this point. Should I do a resolutions? You know that thing that noone ever keeps??

1. Relationship of some sort. Yeah, that’d be nice.
2. Fitness. Everyone looked at me off when I said I wanted to lose 10 ks last night (aww thank you), but I’d really like to lose this gut. I KNOW i said that last year, but believe it or not I was once a very skinny and very unhealthy person.
3. Anger? Actually, I’ve done pretty well with that this year. I think I am much happier than what I used to be, but it’s always good to be better…
4. Organisation – I’d like to get better at that. Starting tomorrow, actually.
5. Update this more. Get some more photos, videos and blog entries up. No I’m not looking for some kind of massive page views, but It would be good to be able to look back at the year and go “awwww” wow. Just got to get over that hesitation about keeping things locked up inside of me. Open up more.

I spent my new years with some great friends at someone house. No, I didn’t “go out” to the clubs, later, just drank beer, chatted, and of course, counted down to the big 0. Didn’t stay up much after that. I drank my weight in beer and actually could of kept going. I didn’t feel “drunk” though, maybe because I paced myself. Still felt like death the next morning. Shoulda gone straight to bed when I got home…

Anyways, here’s to 2010 and a hope that this year, this decade is going to be much better than the last for all of you out there. Peace.

Just went and saw Zombieland. Bloody hell was that hella fun. It’s very much like an American styled version of Shaun of the Dead. Sure, it can’t beat the brillance of that film, but it’s the third zombie film I have ever sat through (i’m not a fan of gore…). Woody kicking ass and having fun killing the undead in the amusement park just slayed me. And Billy Murray’s cameo was made of pure win. The kid reminded me way too much of Michael Cera for my liking but was so so fun. Unfortunately my two movie going companions had already seen the film before and was laughing coming up to the funny parts, but I’ll let that slide. Oh god, I bet the people behind us really really hated us. They were pretty quiet and I lost it a few times during that film. If it’s not subtle British comedy, dark humor does it for me everytime (I was the only one to laugh during points of American Psycho). That’s a Bluray purchase. Well, once the finances are in some kind of order.

Speaking of which, fark. The garage door has shit itself AGAIN. Also something I have ignored with maitenance I think is going to kick me in the arse. The guy says “why haven’t you got this converted already?” (note – they repaired it back in Feb and he warned me about it then). My repsonse – “Well, let’s see. I’m single (yes, that didn’t work out. eh. shit happens as Forest says), paying off a house and living on my own. Forking out 400 something dollars when I don’t have to straight away isn’t on the top of my list.” So… It’s either going to cost me 400 or if it’s too fucked, about a grand once it finally dies in the arse. Cross fingers for me I’ve haven’t left it too late.

Oh yeah. The ants have returned. After xmas, I swear. I’m hanging out to buy a new computer and this bloody credit card seems to drop very slowly…

That’s it for the while. Going to go eat some dinner and catch up on some TV. Got some Daily Show to watch.

There’s nothing worse than getting a message on your phone to call some skin specialists in Adelaide back.

Luckily I just owed them money Rather that bad news than other stuff

The GF is away, AGAIN, lucky sod. Well I say lucky as she’s in Melbourne having a hell of a time. Tomorrow she goes to see Britney live, so perhaps not so much. Fear not, as I have a live concert on Friday night. I get to see The Hilltop Hoods. Sure, they may not sing either, but they don’t try and pretend either

Just finished the first novel of the Dr. Who New Adventures. Will try and write up a post tomorrow. I know they have little to do with the new series (apart from the odd story/reference) but I enjoyed the darker/adult tone they took with them. Well, not so much for the first book. Ooops, I’ll keep that until later.

I’ve fallen in love with my Best ever Smooth Jazz vol. 2 CD again. I’m so glad for random events in my life. That Bathurst work road trip found me music I would normally NEVER listen to.

Gnight

I went through some of my video last night from my holiday, was getting it off before giving my camera for someone to borrow. My god, even without HD the quality is great. The only problem is that everytime I hit pause, it started a new clip. So on my external HDD, i now have heaps of little video clips. Probably a good thing, there’s a lot of crap I could probably leave out and all, but also I’m going to have to find a decent video editing program so i can make edits and kinda clip two videos together and not make it look totally horrible. Also making me a little sad, I wanna go on another holiday